And we all know that they can't afford to do that. Quite simply if they do they'll be in trouble again, and I'm not so sure they can afford to be in trouble again so soon after the Fermi problems.
There is nothing to be excited about over the gains over existing hardware. The problem of course is the word "existing". They are using existing software and existing games. Some of these games are five years old. That's called reaching, not demonstrating. The previous generation had DX11. It was, technically, no different to DX10 but at least it sounded new and fresh. Sadly it was a flop, but hey, at least it was something to sort of be excited about as it was supposed to leave existing technology, software and games, in the dark. It didn't, but hey, at least it had a big mouth and managed to shout loudly enough to make us sit up and pay attention.
So the 7970 almost goes as fast as a 590. A card we have had the opportunity of owning for nearly a year. I still fail to see what is exciting about that, given that hardly any one needed a 590 in the first place. They are trying to replace a card that wasn't exactly main stream in the first place.
And the jump in performance may well be massive, but there's no getting away from the fact that that performance is in software
we already have and could already use to the fullest. Faster does not add function. Function wise apart from a few pointless ones these cards have nothing to offer at all.
I mean shit, they could have at least talked to M$ and talked them into releasing another stupid pointless API to woo us with.
Okay I was going to cover that logic in my recent bloq-esque post, but I shall cover it now.
1. Scaling refers to multiple GPUs. Multiple GPUs rely on software and drivers that only partially exist, so will never be truly worth having or a standard. As long as a computer with one graphics card in it exists multiple GPUs can never become a tried and tested standard that software companies will feel like supporting. Meaning again, you are the minority and thus you deserve every stutter ridden frame displayed to you. Buying a multiple GPU set up is pretty bloody stupid.
As for power draw? Allow me to demonstrate the flaw in that logic. You see, when I bought my 42" plasma TV for £400 a 42" LCD was £600. I went to a store (even though I intended to order it online) and the salesman there tried to convince me that the LCD screen uses less power. I already knew this, and, because I'm not stupid I had decided to research it. I found that for the LCD TV to make up the price difference it would take
six years . And by that time I would have no doubt replaced it with a bigger one or something. Either way it was not worth the hype nor the investment.
Your logic negates to mention that people who fall for such sales patters will replace the card long before it could pay for itself in a electrical usage sense. Heat? as long as the card doesn't fail it's fine. People are willing to put up with it (as they haven't had much of a choice in the past when hot was in).
These cards do nothing that the ones we have can not do. It is as simple as that. A GTX 590 is more than capable of 1600p gaming with more than acceptable frame rates, so the 7970 offers nothing more. The GTX 590 can run three screens in surround AND do 3dvision, CUDA and Physx. So actually the 7970 on a technical level can do less.
These new cards do not allow you to do anything you can not do with a card or a computer that already exists. Those are facts.
Because that is what a salesman does. He will bend the truth and try and convince you that you need this new product, even though it may well be completely pointless.
For a quick example, BT. I decided (as my final straw snapped) to get rid of BT and replace it with Talk Talk. Many reasons, but to sum up Talk Talk were LLU so my internet is three times faster. Not only that, but over all the entire package costs me half of what the BT one did. BT could not offer more than 6m with a download limit of 100gb a month. This is because they use 50 year old lines. Not only that but they over sold the broadband in my area.
So today when they phoned and tried to convince me that what I had put up with before was better than what I had now, at double the price, was just hilarious. In the end I simply said "If you are so wonderful why is it that you offer half of what I have now for twice the money?".
Hoping people will rush out and buy three screens is not a very good idea. Because, once again, we go back to the same problems that ruin multiple GPU set ups.
They are, of course, identical. About 2% of games that are released are made to work properly on three screens. This is because the target audience would equate to about 1%. That 1% are the ones stupid enough to think that if they lash out two grand on GPUs and screens that the game makers will give a shit and cater to them. Hint - in reality they don't, so about one in five of the games I own can be
hacked to work on three screens. I own three games that will do it natively, and one of them is a sequel to its predecessor. Hardly very exciting, especially when you realise that most games
won't even load at all with three screens plugged in.
As I mentioned in my blog post if these companies really are as shit thick as to base their business model on these pointless technologies then all we will see is foreclosures. Mind you, it's got to be more exciting that 2012's gaming line up
I took Nfenix downstairs and gamed on my 42" plasma. Then I realised that -
1. You can't put a 42" screen on a desk with a keyboard and mouse.
2. Because of 1 it wasn't PC gaming as I had to use a joypad.
3. It was pointless.
No no, it
is as black and white as I see it. It's idiots who come up with all of these excuses and stupid reasons that make it all go very fuzzy. The same idiots who keep buying into these pointless technologies and ideas.
